tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post9201808875905360525..comments2015-03-03T10:14:17.659-08:00Comments on John K Stuff: Does Anyone Still Have A Real Job?JohnKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033480276168015590noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-77379982222147185892012-03-14T19:15:39.758-07:002012-03-14T19:15:39.758-07:00John, thanks for the entertaining post.
What woul...John, thanks for the entertaining post.<br /><br />What would be your minimum quality staff for a complete TV show production? I mean just the show, not the social media, which would probably outnumber the main staff. For example, do 2 background painters work better or worse than the double of a single painter because they cooperate or stand in each others way?<br /><br />Thanks a lot! Mike RobNonStophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08895067016170660808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-60791738465011749792012-03-01T02:23:13.169-08:002012-03-01T02:23:13.169-08:00I am minded of Douglas Adams, and the ship that wa...I am minded of Douglas Adams, and the ship that was sent from a &#39;dying&#39; planet to colonize Earth. That ship was, of course, full of telephone cleaners, salespeople - all the detritus of an overbusy, underproducing society. Not that we can ship our people off to another planet (as I don&#39;t think it&#39;s really the peoples&#39; fault), but we could and should re-evaluate modern society Lillith::Raeyn::Etchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00539484582218955141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-25031704177730842022012-02-12T01:43:59.313-08:002012-02-12T01:43:59.313-08:00The diagnosis of LinkedIn ... spot on. I never ev...The diagnosis of LinkedIn ... spot on. I never ever got any work from it. Only spam from recruiters.<br /><br />As Woody Guthrie said, &quot;Give me a job of work to do.&quot; He also said, &quot;If you aint got the dough re me boys, you better go back to beautiful Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska Tennessee.&quot; He said that about California.Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-38565580495946170572012-02-06T10:30:32.090-08:002012-02-06T10:30:32.090-08:00Amen to all that.Amen to all that.Crimsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00479425239833051401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-42767671524969757062012-02-06T08:52:31.137-08:002012-02-06T08:52:31.137-08:00&quot;This conversation makes me want to go into e...&quot;This conversation makes me want to go into every boardroom in America and DDT everyone present.&quot;<br /><br />Brick Layer, DDT is wayyyy too benign. Get some Parathion. It&#39;ll give &#39;em the twitches but GOOD!The Aardvarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11425052822588090155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-43613881044225727372012-02-06T08:47:34.659-08:002012-02-06T08:47:34.659-08:00Those resumes read like a Stan Freberg advertising...Those resumes read like a Stan Freberg advertising spoof.The Aardvarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11425052822588090155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-64452404461589382062012-01-29T21:15:57.736-08:002012-01-29T21:15:57.736-08:00Back in the 1990s (you know, back when I was a you...Back in the 1990s (you know, back when I was a young teenager and you were warping my brain), a bunch of morons in DC came up with this horrendous idea: what if America could become the world&#39;s &quot;idea guy&quot;? You know, that asshole that never actually DOES anything but walks around trying to sell his ideas to people that can actually do things? Yeah, the idea was to make this entire 3-Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04475252130797506693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-27724870987485182032012-01-23T21:02:06.221-08:002012-01-23T21:02:06.221-08:00The goal isn&#39;t to do things effectively, it&#3...The goal isn&#39;t to do things effectively, it&#39;s to stay busy enough to get paid enough to consume enough to keep other people busy enough to get paid enough to consume enough to....stiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596099037495346548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-76476042060607022072012-01-19T22:49:04.430-08:002012-01-19T22:49:04.430-08:00You&#39;re talking about Workers Self Management t...You&#39;re talking about Workers Self Management there John, a dangerous idea in this capitalist country.Lamont Cranstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15704275663099200355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-3739660196626883742012-01-19T22:48:53.125-08:002012-01-19T22:48:53.125-08:00You&#39;re talking about Workers Self Management t...You&#39;re talking about Workers Self Management there John, a dangerous unpatriotic notion in this here proudly capitalistic nation!Lamont Cranstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15704275663099200355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-21166095057589740382012-01-19T22:48:02.660-08:002012-01-19T22:48:02.660-08:00You&#39;re talking about Workers Self Management t...You&#39;re talking about Workers Self Management there John, a dangerous idea in this capitalist country.Lamont Cranstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15704275663099200355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-79809690705671526372012-01-19T00:24:25.835-08:002012-01-19T00:24:25.835-08:00Nailed it, John.
I suppose the other side of the ...Nailed it, John.<br /><br />I suppose the other side of the coin is that &quot;content&quot; - genuine, heartfelt statements, humour, etc - tends to migrate to free, shallow, snacky sites like reddit: full meals of sincerely prepared artistic creation aren&#39;t really fundable in our current world.<br /><br />Everything people actually &quot;do&quot; happens under the radar of our so-called Maximum Awesomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461974513418324374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-91572057765871703132012-01-18T21:46:28.008-08:002012-01-18T21:46:28.008-08:00The problem is laziness. It doesn&#39;t take 100 ...The problem is laziness. It doesn&#39;t take 100 people to do a job that can be done with 10. I am a designer and since a few years ago will not take anymore jobs where I have to work with a marketing director. That is a B.S. job that&#39;s mostly taken by women who speak all the creative jargon but have none. They will have you do work and then take credit for somehow managing what you do, and Rafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814883836018762047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-14697527351792168002012-01-18T15:56:45.394-08:002012-01-18T15:56:45.394-08:00James N said - &quot;If the software speeding thin...James N said - &quot;If the software speeding things up creates more jobs here in North America, I&#39;m all for it.&quot;<br /><br />This has been tried on a few flash-based shows (Foster&#39;s comes to mind). The Americans were so happy to be competitive once again but the fact was that the overseas studio in Ireland used the same software and did it for less. Once the Chinese and E. Indians smackmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15900985571619700335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-47399212854495383882012-01-17T10:57:47.254-08:002012-01-17T10:57:47.254-08:00John you would probably like this:
http://www.yo...John you would probably like this: <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=depxWQ-okWM<br /><br />&quot;The most famous recording of this song for baby-boomers featured Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm on The Flintstones &quot;No Biz Like Show Biz&quot; episode (which originally aired September 17, 1965&quot;.-WikiTrevor Guitarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04821822742599265968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-34422242216087714412012-01-16T19:57:39.230-08:002012-01-16T19:57:39.230-08:00I&#39;d say, If you let software handle the most l...<i>I&#39;d say, If you let software handle the most labor intensive, you will get boring parts not classic animation!</i><br /><br />But, given the current state of the TV animation industry, is using the software to speed things up really any worse then sending the more labor intensive jobs to Korea or India and having it come back looking boring and mechanical anyway?<br /><br />If the softwareJames N.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04938979989958769590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-40963413214063612532012-01-16T19:39:08.626-08:002012-01-16T19:39:08.626-08:00hey john im a 17 year old guy from california whos...hey john im a 17 year old guy from california whos trying to learn how to daw cartoons (im already kinda decent at drawing) and i love your artwork any tips or advice on getting started? please reply your pal, AndrewAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16803670737259287294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-73435916452814794382012-01-16T19:08:53.273-08:002012-01-16T19:08:53.273-08:00In case you have a need for &quot;advanced entity ...In case you have a need for &quot;advanced entity management&quot;, I&#39;ve got the right company for you!<br /><br />http://www.rasi.com/<br /><br />=)scabfarmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486578941981536356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-25306945036176527492012-01-16T12:46:01.265-08:002012-01-16T12:46:01.265-08:00YES. Thank you for putting this into words and for...YES. Thank you for putting this into words and for expressing my own thoughts far more accurately than I could have!David Reddickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958122240263110448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-39542898200441833592012-01-16T10:13:34.264-08:002012-01-16T10:13:34.264-08:00I&#39;m part of a computer science program and it&...I&#39;m part of a computer science program and it&#39;s interesting to see that some of our applicants are actually denied because of this over-complication. They get a letter pretty much saying &quot;So what exactly can you do?&quot; and we hire the person who clearly listed &quot;I can program in C++, Java, and C#&quot;<br /><br />Now that everyone is complicating their descriptions in an Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036177400265432280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-43852953588933770512012-01-15T16:05:55.207-08:002012-01-15T16:05:55.207-08:00you *can* negate some of the extra work with compu...you *can* negate some of the extra work with computers, but you should never trade opportunity for creativity in place of automation, especially just to save a few bucks (unless you have no other choice).<br /><br />I think Bakshi said it best at Comic-con when he talked about a computer being the storyboard, animation station, recording studio, ink &amp; paint, color processing, camera and finalAlex Printzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14918717841399068655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-47204789041416756132012-01-15T14:46:10.700-08:002012-01-15T14:46:10.700-08:00@evham
i think that sending animation overseas mus...@evham<br />i think that sending animation overseas must be the equivalent to manufacturing any product in china.<br />if there´s anyone who knows roughly how much is it to make animation (lets say a 15 minute episode)in an average korean animation studio.<br />im pretty sure that amount is gong to explain your question.danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01447119050030199324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-80321347619403194732012-01-15T14:45:56.659-08:002012-01-15T14:45:56.659-08:00@evham
i think that sending animation overseas mus...@evham<br />i think that sending animation overseas must be the equivalent to manufacturing any product in china.<br />if there´s anyone who knows roughly how much is it to make animation (lets say a 15 minute episode)in an average korean animation studio.<br />im pretty sure that amount is gong to explain your question.danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01447119050030199324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-49628542373755789602012-01-15T14:45:38.078-08:002012-01-15T14:45:38.078-08:00@evham
i think that sending animation overseas mus...@evham<br />i think that sending animation overseas must be the equivalent to manufacturing any product in china.<br />if there´s anyone who knows roughly how much is it to make animation (lets say a 15 minute episode)in an average korean animation studio.<br />im pretty sure that amount is gong to explain your question.danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01447119050030199324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22406604.post-12730331942249355952012-01-15T09:42:57.869-08:002012-01-15T09:42:57.869-08:00I guess the reason this happens is simply because ...I guess the reason this happens is simply because for so many years the actual jobs have moved abroad. Therefore meaning that students have to focus on concept art and such as it seems to be the only domestic work available. That and of course the fact that &quot;work language&quot; has changed, so now instead of saying what you can do, you&#39;re supposed to talk about your deep passion and loveChris Turnbullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14573890011549701296noreply@blogger.com